About Mária Mottl
Lived 1906 – 1980 (aged 73). Mária Mottl was a Hungarian paleontologist, speleologist and geologist.
Mária Mottl (22 December 1906 – 21 September 1980) was a Hungarian speleologist and vertebrate paleontologist.
Biography Mária Mottl was born on 22 December 1906 at Budapest. She studied at the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Budapest. After completing her education, she joined Royal Hungarian Geological Institute, Budapest, and subsequently, after two years, she became a field paleontologist in the same institute. At the same time she produced a number of publications on caves and cave bears. Mottl documented all the finds from this 100,000 year-old cave.
She died on 21 September 1980 in Graz.
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Hungarian paleontologist (1906–1980)
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Mária Mottl was born on 22 December 1906 in Budapest.
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Mária Mottl died on 21 September 1980 in Graz.
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Mária Mottl was a paleontologist, speleologist and geologist.
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